Mark Neville

Mark Neville
Born 1966
Leeds, Yorkshire, England
Nationality British
Education University of Reading; Goldsmiths' College (London); The Rijksakademie (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Known for Social documentary photography, war art
Notable work Port Glasgow Book Project[1]
Patron(s) Imperial War Museum; Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation,[2]

Mark Neville (born 1966) is a British artist specialising in social documentary photography.[3][4]

Life and work

Neville lives and works in London. He studied Fine Arts at Reading University, Berkshire (B.A.), Goldsmiths' College in London (M.A.) and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Netherlands.[5] As an artist he is known for working at the interface of art and documentary utilizing photography and films to capture the unique face of working communities.

Neville is best known for his Port Glasgow Book Project,[1] after he spent a year as artist in residence in Port Glasgow in 2004 portraying the town's hardship of Scotland’s post-industrial decline in a photographic book which was distributed as a free gift to all members of the community. He has worked on commissioned projects by The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (Braddock/Sewickley, 2012)[6] and Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute (Fancy Pictures, 2008). His work Deeds Not Words,[7] which addresses the Corby community involved in the toxic waste disposal court case,[8] exhibited in 2013 at The Photographers' Gallery in London.[9][10][11] Neville created a body of work based on a three-month residency with the British Army in the Afghan province of Helmand as the UK's official war artist in 2011.[12][13] Part of The Helmand Work showed at London's Imperial War Museum's Contemporary Art Gallery during its relaunch in Summer 2014.[14][15]

Neville was shortlisted for the 2018 Daiwa Foundation Art Prize along with Kate Groobey and Keith Milow.[16]

Publications

  • Port Glasgow. Self-published, 2004. Edition of 8000 copies.
  • Deeds Not words. 2011. Edition of 500 copies.
  • London/Pittsburgh. London: Alan Cristea Gallery, 2014. ISBN 978-0957508576.
  • Battle Against Stigma. 2015. Two volumes, one volume has photographs by Neville and text by Neville and Jamie Hacker Hughes, the other volume contains written testimonies from various soldiers.
  • Child's Play. 2017.
  • Fancy Pictures. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2016. ISBN 978-3-86930-908-8. Includes work from six of Neville's projects. With an interview between David Campany and Neville, "Fancy Pictures".

References

  1. 1 2 "Port Glasgow". National Galleries.
  2. ↑ Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2018. Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. 2018.
  3. ↑ "People power: Mark Neville's documentary photography – in pictures". The Guardian. 6 January 2017. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2018-06-07 – via www.theguardian.com.
  4. ↑ "Mark Neville's Immersive Photo Experiment". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2018-06-07.
  5. ↑ "Mark Neville homepage, biography".
  6. ↑ "Picture of the week: Mark Neville 'Woodland Hills High School Prom'". The Guardian.
  7. ↑ "My best photograph: 'Mark Neville: Corby Carnival Queens'". The Guardian.
  8. ↑ "Exhibition sheds new light on Corby toxic waste scandal that left 16 children with birth defects". The Independent.
  9. ↑ "Mark Neville 'Deeds Not Words'" (Press release). The Photographers Gallery London.
  10. ↑ Campany, David. "David Campany on 'Deeds not Words'".
  11. ↑ Shaw, Anny (16 July 2014). "Imperial War Museum reopens in London after £40m revamp". The Art Newspaper. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  12. ↑ "Review: Mark Neville's Helmand Work at the IWM London". Apollo Magazine.
  13. ↑ Mansfield, Susan (23 September 2011). "The art of war". The Scotsman.
  14. ↑ "Contemporary Art Gallery: Mark Neville" (PDF) (Press release). Imperial War Museum.
  15. ↑ "Mark Neville: 19 Jul–25 Sep 2014 at Imperial War Museums, London". Wall Street International.
  16. ↑ "Daiwa Foundation Art Prize 2018: short list announced!". Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation. 23 October 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2018.

Further reading

  • Moira, Jeffrey (May 4, 2006). "Throwing himself into it Three odd films by one artist are as funny as they are sad, finds Moira Jeffrey". The Herald (Glasgow). Retrieved October 12, 2014 – via HighBeam Research. (Subscription required (help)).
  • Moira, Jeffrey (June 1, 2008). "Land of Confusion The new show at Mount Stuart has invited the locals in, but what does it leave them with, asks Moira Jeffrey". Scotland on Sunday. Retrieved October 12, 2014 – via HighBeam Research. (Subscription required (help)).
  • Bannerman, Lucy (November 29, 2004). "Artist's photos put real people of Clydeside back in the frame; Unique project documents town for future generation". The Herald (Glasgow). Retrieved October 12, 2014 – via HighBeam Research. (Subscription required (help)).
  • "Art and politics - can photos of Corby change public policy?". Channel 4. 5 September 2013. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  • Barron, Joanne (20 April 2012). "Photog from U.K. here to document steel heritage". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  • MacDonald, Kerri (1 March 2012). "Postcard From a New London". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  • Baker, Stacey (25 June 2012). "Pittsburgh, After the Steel Mills". New York Times. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
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